Chapter 1577 Collecting Resin

Of course, these are all incidental. Huang Hai's main job is to hunt wild animals.

Every day when he goes out, the first thing he does is to check the traps around him, take away the captured prey, and then restore the triggered traps to their original state. This is the main source of meat for the two.

Then he went to the forest to hunt small animals. Squirrels, hares and the like began to appear again. Huang Hai used a more sophisticated bow and arrow to hunt one or two wild animals every day.

This also made the meat storage of the two richer, and accumulated a lot of fur and bones.

And recently, a more precious resource was found, which brought great changes to their lives.

Huang Hai found a group of pine trees!

In fact, when Huang Hai was hunting a squirrel, the squirrel ran quickly to the south and went all the way to the south. It came to an area that had never been to before, about 7km away from the camp.

That is, after coming here, he found that there were many squirrels here, and there were many pine cones falling on the ground.

So, without successfully hunting squirrels, he directly collected a large number of pine cones and took them back.

Pine cones are also edible, and the remaining shells can be used as firewood. The heat generated is very high and it is also a very precious material.

However, when Bai Hao saw a pile of pine cones, his eyes immediately lit up and he immediately asked where these pine cones came from?

Huang Hai roughly explained the situation, and was a little confused for a while, saying: "What's wrong, Haozi, this thing should not be valuable? Although pine cones can be eaten, the food they provide is still a small part, and even if they are used as firewood, they are not very durable, so the value should be relatively low."

Bai Hao shook his head and said: "No, it is another important resource, pine resin!"

Bai Hao also briefly explained that pine trees once produced another important material, which is pine resin.

And pine resin has a function, which is to make candles!

This is of great significance to the development of civilization and can bring light to the night.

In the future, as the temperature gradually rises, there is no need to light the fireplace at night. This will not only make the temperature in the shelter too high and there is a risk of fire, but also consume a lot of charcoal and increase resource loss.

But how to illuminate at night?

Candles are a very good choice.

If you can collect enough pine resin, you can make candles to illuminate at night.

Moreover, candles should be able to exchange for a lot of survival coins, which can be regarded as a product with relatively high technological content.

Even in future transactions, candles can also be used as trading objects, which have very important significance and value among survivors.

After learning about this situation, Huang Hai nodded self-righteously: "Why didn't I think of it! Then I will go to the pine forest tomorrow?"

Bai Hao was silent for a moment, shook his head and said: "You stay in the camp tomorrow, I will go to see, the pine tree you mentioned may be near my original camp, if possible... I will go back to the original camp for two days and collect a batch of pine resin."

Bai Hao obviously knew how to collect pine resin, so he took the matter on himself, and Huang Hai did not refuse.

The next day, Bai Hao carried a bamboo backpack with some food and some bamboo tubes, and went directly to the original shelter.

After walking for about half a day, we came directly to the shelter that we had built before. It had not collapsed yet, and it seemed that it was still very solid when it was built.

However, the interior was already stained with some dust, and all the furniture and living facilities had been moved away, and it looked a little shabby.

Bai Hao gently stroked the dust in my hand and murmured to himself: "It seems that this can also be used as a temporary camp. It should be a good choice to live here temporarily in the future."

At the beginning, because there were wild wolves, they left this area, but now both of them have bows and arrows, and they are very sophisticated bows and arrows. It is not a big problem to hunt wild wolves together.

If possible, he also hopes to encounter a small wild wolf, which can supplement them with a large amount of meat.

After settling here, Bai Hao began to look for the pine forest according to the direction indicated by Huang Hai.

And not long after walking, he found the pine forest in the southwest direction. The area was very large, and many pine cones fell on the ground, which could be seen at a glance.

However, these pine cones were not his target, his target was pine resin.

The so-called rosin is the resin secreted by the pine tree trunk. If you cut through the epidermis to form a channel, the rosin inside will flow out along the channel and can be collected in a container below.

Bai Hao tried to cut a hole, and then he could see some juice flowing out. Then he put the bamboo tube below and tied it to the tree to ensure that the rosin could stay in the bamboo tube.

He brought a total of 15 bamboo tubes this time, tied them to 15 pine trees to collect rosin, and only needed to come back to check after a while.

After doing all this, it didn't take too long. Bai Hao also explored the surrounding mountains and forests.

At that time, when he was still living in the first camp, he didn't explore too far out, so he didn't know much about the surrounding situation.

Now it's just right to check whether there are other precious resources and materials.

Unexpectedly, there were some gains. He found another rhizome. He did not hesitate too much and collected all of them directly.

He dug until the sun was about to set, then he put away his tools and returned to the old camp to live.

He planned to stay here for two days, and then return to the camp after collecting a batch of pine resin.

Taking advantage of these few days, he could also collect food around.

The next day, he went out as usual, first checked the collection of pine resin, and found that the amount was very small, only one layer at the bottom of the bamboo tube.

On the one hand, it was because the flow speed was relatively slow, and on the other hand, it was because the volatilization was relatively large, and the small amount was also a normal thing.

He did not care too much and continued to collect plant rhizomes around. This time, in addition to digging rhizomes, he accidentally discovered a new food-chili peppers.

This was definitely an unexpected surprise. Looking at the red but strange-looking peppers, Bai Hao was also very excited. This meant that the food in the future could be greatly improved, and maybe he could even have a hot pot.

This time, he did not pick the peppers directly, but dug out the roots of the entire pepper, intending to take them back to the vegetable garden to plant, so that he would have peppers to eat for a long time in the future.